NSC Lagos Command Seeks Better Security Upgrade

The Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS, command located in Lagos State has asked for the necessary need for utmost support from different relevant stakeholders in order to get more equipment to fortify the custody.

BR Freedman, The Controller of the NCS, Lagos State Command, disclosed in a statement released on Wednesday during a courtesy visit to the Lagos State Security Trust Fund office. He also mentioned some of the equipments needed to safe guide.

According to him “The visit was also an opportunity to intimate LSSTF on the operations of the correctional service and its challenges as well as to table the request for more logistics and equipment for safer custody such as Closed-Circuit Television, communication jammers, scanner, electric fencing, etc. to improve its operations.

Dr Abdurrazaq Balogun, the Executive Secretary of LSSTF, should some appreciation during the visit and said, “LSSTF solely relies on voluntary donations to meet its mandate, and there has been a shortfall in donations that have hindered the Fund from providing as many interventions for the security agencies as required.

“There have been some concerns of citizens about the operations of the correctional centres bordering on the preparedness of the facilities and operatives to respond to unrest within the facilities and externally, including the congestion in the facilities, particularly with the incidence at the Kuje correctional centre, which I believe should make the authorities deploy more resources to correctional facilities, especially in Lagos.

“The NCS should consider the possibility of relocating the correctional centres to create more room for inmates, establishing court rooms closer to major correctional centres or virtually to reduce the risk/cost related to logistics and transportation of inmates to the courts in far locations.”